Ohio State’s PhD in English fosters scholarly excellence in literary analysis, rhetoric, creative writing, digital humanities, and cultural studies. Students explore literature across periods and regions while developing original contributions to literary criticism and theory. The program encourages interdisciplinary exploration and prepares graduates for impactful careers in academia, publishing, and public humanities.
Digital mapping of African American literary geographies in the early 20th century
Queer ecologies in post-apocalyptic fiction from 1990–2020
The politics of archiving in Indigenous literature and oral traditions
Posthuman ethics in contemporary climate fiction (cli-fi)
Intertextuality in modernist female authors’ war narratives
Affective labor and the epistolary form in 18th-century women’s writing
Surveillance and identity in post-9/11 American poetry
Race, gender, and algorithmic bias in literary recommendation systems
Analysis of digital marginalia in 21st-century e-reading communities
Exploring Afrofuturism in speculative fiction and graphic novels
The Gothic uncanny in borderland literature of the U.S.–Mexico frontier
Embodiment and disability poetics in contemporary performance literature
Ecocriticism and land dispossession in settler colonial narratives
The role of nostalgia in diasporic South Asian fiction
Digital textual editing and open-source platforms for public humanities access
Trauma and testimony in Holocaust graphic narratives
Postcolonial memory and resistance in Caribbean poetry
The rhetorics of protest in American slam poetry traditions
Transatlantic literary exchange in abolitionist women’s networks
Sonic reading and the oral/aural archive in African diasporic literature
Contribute bold literary research and creative scholarship with OSU’s English PhD.
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